[address notation: Caleb Swanfer / N^o. 4] [undecipherable: probable reading: War Office] January 28^th 1800 Sir Several applications have been made at this Office by Officers & others in behalf of sundry claims late of the [undecipherable] Regt: No pay due from 1 May to [undecipherable] October 1796 - That claim[s] of that regiment on file with your acct[s] were accordingly referred to and it was ascertained that the money was [undecipherable: probable reading: collected] from you by Col [undecipherable] [undecipherable] day master of the said regiment on the promise to the amount thereof. The applicants were accordingly confirmed to that effect (told that as Mr [undecipherable] has not rendered his acct: for that period it could not be ascertained whether he had not paid them and or their representatives) - The claims have now again come forwarded directed to [undecipherable] Butler not on behalf of the parties very immediate[ly] payment - As Mr [undecipherable] is now in this place I have to request that you will inform yourself whether he has his acct: or if they are not rendered from [undecipherable] is only satisfies the true state of their claims and communicate the same to me: for which purpose I hand you within a list of the names and sums claimed by each that of payment has not been made the proper steps may be immediately taken for satisfying the Claimants [undecipherable: probable reading: James] [undecipherable initials] H Corey Clarke[s] Oxford New York January 22^d 1800 Sir I have received from the Secretary of War an account exhibited by you for expenses incurred in pursuing & apprehending Deserters from [undecipherable] throughout & [undecipherable] Companies of the 16^th Regt: amounting to [undecipherable] six dollars [undecipherable] You before adjustment thereof must be made it is necessary that you [undecipherable: probable reading: forward] to this Office the names [undecipherable]